the eXorcist New horrors await the demon-battling priests…

SEASON 2 US BROADCAST: Fox from 29 September UK BROADCAST: Syfy TBC

With its First seAson concluded, tV’s The Exorcist has finished its adaptation of the classic William Peter Blatty novel on which it’s based. the show’s executive producers tell SFX that the show will now adopt an anthology format, tackling a new threat each season.

“that was our intention for the show from the very beginning,” says executive producer sean Crouch. “You can’t tell a seven-year story about one family that just keeps getting possessed over and over again without the audience just kind of starting to hate you for putting one family through so much shit. so the idea is every year we’ll have a different case. A different possessed individual, a different family. But it’s Marcus and tomas and Bennett, our priests, who are recurring characters, that you’re going to follow and have that investment with.”

season two’s case takes its priest protagonists to a woodland isle off the coast of seattle, and a foster home for troubled teens run by Star Trek’s John Cho, one of whom is played by Deadpool’s Brianna hildebrand.

“then we go into the Vatican this season,” says eP Jeremy slater, “and really get into the story with Father Bennett, and hopefully that’s our connective tissue in the mythology of the show… We’re going to do other types of horror. We’re going to do haunted house horror. it’s all demon-related, but we’re going to do nature horror, connecting it with J-horror

and Ringu and Dark Water a little bit.”